Sonam Kapoor’s Middle Finger in Players – Did the Censor Board Play Truant?

Sonam Kapoor’s perfectly manicured middle finger act in Players has raised a few eyebrows in and outside the Indian film fraternity. In the trailer of the Abbas Mustan’s most anticipated movie, the Kapoor babe is shown making the controversial hand gesture while driving a car. From the looks of it, it seems that the censor board which has blurred out other lewd gestures, words and even flags of other countries, gave a complete miss to Sonam’s finger act.

A section of the film industry feels that Sonam Kapoor who is a youth icon should have refrained from this gesture because it sends wrong and distorted message to the society. Others are wondering why the Censor board is playing a double standard game where some scenes are deleted while some are passed without even raising an eyebrow.

A source says that the CEO of the censor board, Pankaja Thakur was missing when the middle finger scene was passed. The source mentioned, “Pankaja was on leave last week when the Players trailer was submitted. The regional officer JP Singh passed the scene, apparently without understanding its relevance.” However now that Pankaja Thakur is is back in town, she will try to get the filmmakers to blur the finger gesture in all trailers, claimed the source. Abbas Mustan, the director-duo backed the middle finger act saying “Whatever is shown in the film is in context and situational.”